Antisocial Social Club

An Experiment in Human Connection
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Antisocial Social Club is an experiment in human creativity and connection. For 365 days, I'm committed to sharing real talk that goes deeper than the chatter and noise of social media. I might fake my own death on social media in 2025, and if I do, this is where you'll find me instead. Please come along for the ride! No, I don't know where we're going, and I'm not sure when we'll be back. So get in, but only if you're down for a trip into creative chaos and the wild unknown.

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35. screen time

“You’re a liar.” I chucked my phone onto the bed, offended. How dare it tell me that my average screen time for last week was ten hours a day?! How is that even possible? I am so chaste! So pure! So not on social media! What the actual spork am I doing on my phone for ten hours a day? Ok, deep...

Jan 19, 2025

34. baptism

I got baptized today. I am, once again, a new creation. It wasn’t my first time, and it won’t be the last. It was just one of many recurring immersions in the waters of sacred renewal, but like every time, it surprised me how much I needed to be submerged, cleansed, and reborn. I hadn’t surfed i...

Jan 18, 2025

34. more monster

I really need to just do less. Lately, I feel like I’m getting hit over the head with this lesson, a wisdom nugget that I apparently need to learn slowly, repeatedly, and with an obnoxious frequency: my capacity and capability are not the same. I am wildly, expansively, divinely, purposefully ca...

Jan 17, 2025

32. angry women

We need more angry women. Actually, let me be more accurate. We need more clear, strong, direct, unafraid women, who are willing to call things as they see them. We need women who actively work to shed and release the conditioned fawn response that causes us so much harm, usually for the sake of...

Jan 16, 2025

31. how are you

One benefit of starting this project is I no longer feel pressured to give a full and complete answer to the question “how are you?” It seems like such a simple question on the surface, but it almost always stumps me. Part of me wants to give a full and complete answer, which is of course only a...

Jan 15, 2025

30. cheating

Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn’t keep her. Put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well. Honestly, what the actual fuck was that rhyme about? Some weird patriarchal vibes there that we turned into a kids song? Anyway, I’m thinking about cheating. No, not...

Jan 14, 2025

29. unsubscribe

Since beginning this project of stepping back from social media, committing to daily writing, and generally cleaning up my digital consumption habits, I’ve also been ruthlessly unsubscribing from email marketing campaigns. Pretty much, if it came from a mailing list, I hit the unsubscribe button...

by Amelia Travis — Jan 13, 2025

28. throne

I am in a strange place. Not emotionally, but materially, physically, environmentally. There’s an interesting phenomenon that co-occurs with unexpected change in one’s environment, something we rarely notice until unforeseen disruptions of the normal routine unravel the weave of the familiar an...

Jan 12, 2025

27. how it feels

Content Warning: Today's piece reflects on the California fires, gun violence, white supremacist culture, and other potentially activating topics. Please read at your own risk, take care of your mental health and your people, and skip this one if you're feeling taxed by the weight of the world. *...

Jan 11, 2025

26. the curtain

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” cries a slightly hysterical voice, desperate to conceal the true workings of a complex illusion. In the closing scenes of the Wizard of Oz, we learn that the mysterious, renowned, ‘great and powerful’ Oz is not an omnipotent, indefatigable magici...

Jan 10, 2025

24. chaos

Wow. Just wow. I am actually astounded at the level of disarray in our house right now. On Sunday, a massive storm system moved through the area and after the deluge, we noticed water seeping up from our floorboards. Cue panic. It’s now Thursday, and after ripping up half the floors in the hou...

Jan 09, 2025

24. brambles

I started bleeding yesterday, unexpectedly, as it’s only day 19 of my cycle. I say unexpectedly, although my menstrual cycle has been anywhere from 17 days to 31 days over the last 13 moons, and it’s - big sigh - undeniable that perimenopause is upon me. More to come on that later, as I have an...

Jan 08, 2025

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